1889 · F689 · JH1836
The Sower (after Millet)
The Sower (after Millet), 1889. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Saint-Rémy Copies.
The Sower (after Millet) meaning and analysis
The Sower (after Millet) belongs to the site node The Saint-Rémy Copies. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.
Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Saint-Remy Period. The main thematic path runs through Van Gogh Wheat Field Paintings .
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A man strides across the tilled field, flinging seed with one hand, the seed bag slung across his body; on the horizon stand a red farm implement and a small figure. In early November 1889 Van Gogh painted this after Lerat’s etching of Millet’s Sower, and made a second version in January 1890. He wrote that painting after these Millets was “much rather to translate them into another language than to copy them.”